As someone who doesn't have a vote here, I'm appalled by how little those
who do have a vote care about it being stolen. See
http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptNoneDare.html for a discussion of the media's
lack of coverage of the Ohio thefts.
R
On 11/6/06, James Steiner <gregortroll at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I found this overview to be very informative, rather alarming, and
> only as technical as minimally needed.
>
> On arstechnica website:
>
>
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars>
> Also available as a free, PDF: (PDF Link)
>
>
http://arstechnica.com/etc/How_to_steal_an_election-ArsTechnica.pdf>
> Also, IIRCC, there have been plenty of anomolous results with assorted
> electronic voting machines, but no-one has been able to prove if they
> were the result of hack attempts, or just the result of buggy software
> / poor handling.
>
> ~~James
>
http://www.turtlezero.com> (JA-86)
>
> On 11/6/06, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Anybody?
> >
> > A lot of talk this morning about voting machine security. Somebody made
> the
> > point that nobody has ever hacked into a voting system in a manner that
> > others might detect. (No, this is NOT a tautology) I wasnt sure I
> > understood, but it seemed that there was something analogus to a
> checksum
> > routine that would detect if software had been altered. Did I come
> close to
> > understanding.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> > Nicholas S. Thompson
> > Professor of Psychology and Ethololgy, Clark University
> > (nthompson at clarku.edu)
> > Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com)
>
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